Vaccination can also lower your chances of other serious shingles complications. For example, if it shows up on your face, ...

When data from two data sources were analyzed -- one of commercial health insurance claims, the other from Medicare -- ...

A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has never had, nor been ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has ...

A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has never had, nor been exposed to, chicken pox. I was tested in 2022 for varicella-zoster virus ...

Many Brits might unknowingly be walking a knife’s edge with their health, as an expert warned if left untreated, the disease ...

By Dani Blum People with psychiatric conditions are more likely to be hospitalized or die of the virus. Scientists have ideas about why that might be the case. By Dani Blum For many, Covid is ...

Medically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.

The RSV vaccine is given in one shot. Shingles (herpes zoster) is the reactivation of the chickenpox virus (varicella-zoster virus), causing an outbreak of painful, blistering sores in one of every ...

During the third quarter, sales of GSK’s shingles vaccine dropped by 7% compared to the same period in 2023, while sales of its shot for respiratory syncytial virus, Arexvy, plunged by 72% year over ...